JEFFERSON CITY | Two senators tied up the Missouri Senate for hours Tuesday to block a wide-ranging bill designed to restrict access to abortion.
Sens. Jolie Justus and Joan Bray said the bill would put women in danger, water down sex education in schools and do nothing to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
The legislation eventually was set aside without its supporters speaking on its behalf.
Justus, a Kansas City Democrat, said the bill would lead to more women undergoing dangerous, illegal abortions and lead to more crisis births in which young mothers abandon their newborns in trash bins.
The bill, she said, would force all but one abortion clinic in Missouri to close. And the bill creates an absurd program that provides counseling to women with unintended pregnancies but bans any discussion of birth control to help those women avoid future pregnancies, Justus said.
"We tried to compromise on this bill, ...
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